KOIN 6 News confirmed Cover Oregon has added dozens of extra fax lines to handle the paper applications being sent in by fax. On Wednesday, King said they had received about 24,000 paper applications. That number now is closer to 30,000. But many people complained of busy signals when trying to send in their application by fax. Michael Cox, the Cover Oregon spokesperson, said their office has one fax number but it’s an electronic interface that can handle more than one call at once. When a fax comes in it takes two seconds per page to be transferred into the server. When the paper applications began, Cover Oregon was only able to take 500 applications per day. It was upped to 1000, and this week increased to 1500 per day.

Yes fax machines are back in play because most likely the state government does not legally recognize a digital signature as legally binding. Although an analog signature, even though it was broken down to digital bits and re-assembled is valid.

The Federal Government and I assume Oregon has never understood or grasped the concept behind e-forms.

As of October 1, US taxpayers had already spent over $220 million on Oregon’s exchange website — which has proceeded to successfully enroll exactly zero people.

Normally, conservatives point out the waste in liberal programs by dividing the cost by the number of recipients to show how out-of-proportion expensive it is. The liberals might have found a way around that calculation.

Hahahaha. The party of the futile future. Sooo 80s. Special Delivery ponies leave daily. Over the past 2 years I have weaned my clients and vendors from faxing anything to me. For that matter, very few still use fax. I still have one (actually a printer with that function), but cancelled the second line it was on. Not only is socialism a 150 year failed experiment, these troglodytes can’t figure out modern communication.